Plate-like multiple antenna and electrical equipment provided therewith

• US 6,847,329 B2
• Filed: 10/24/2002
• Issued: 01/25/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Cable Limited (Proterial Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Cable Limited (Proterial Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ikegaya, Morihiko, Sugiyama, Takahiro, Suzuki, Shinichiro, Tate, Hisashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Wimer, Michael C.
• Application Number:
  US10/280,178
• Publication Number:
  US 20040008146A1
• Time in Patent Office: 824 Days
• Field of Search: 343/700.MS, 343/702, 343/829, 343/830, 343/846, 343/741
• US Class Current: 343/702
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/22 by structural association with other equipment or articles
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 13/10 Resonant slot antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 13/12 Longitudinally slotted cylinder antennas; Equivalent structures
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/371 Branching current paths
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/30 with feed to end of elongated active element, e.g. unipole H01Q9/44 takes precedence

Abstract

A slot 2 is defined by notching a conductor plate 1, a first radiation conductor 3 and a second radiation conductor 4 are disposed by sandwiching the slot 2 as a boundary, a third radiation conductor 5 connected to either of the first radiation conductor 3 or the second radiation conductor 4 is provided in the slot 2, if necessary, on and after third radiation conductors, for example, a fourth and fifth radiation conductors connected to either of the first radiation conductor 3 or the second radiation conductor 4 are provided, a power is supplied in the slot by the use of conductor edges of at least two radiation conductors, if required, whereby two monopole antennas and slot antennas, which use respective electric currents on the first radiation conductor 3 and the second radiation conductor 4, are electrically formed, besides, antennas other than that described above are electrically formed by utilizing electric currents over on and after the third radiation conductors.

Claims

1. A plate-like multiple antenna, for transmitting and receiving one radio wave and another radio wave each having different wavelengths, comprising:

a conductor plate;

a slot formed by notching said conductor plate;

a first radiation conductor formed of said conductor plate at one side of said slot;

a second radiation conductor formed of said conductor plate at another side of said slot;

a loop antenna constituted by a third and a fourth radiation conductors respectively

connected with said first and second radiation conductors in said slot; and

a power source for feeding power to said third and fourth radiation conductors.

2. A plate-like multiple antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said conductor plate is separately provided from a ground section of a high-frequency circuitry in equipment on which said antenna is to be loaded.

3. A plate-like multiple antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said slot is defined at a position where it deviates from the center of said conductor plate, and said first radiation conductor formed at one side of said slot has a surface larger than that of said second radiation conductor.

4. A plate-like multiple antenna as claimed in claim 3, wherein:

a dimension of said first radiation conductor corresponding to a longitudinal direction of said slot is set to be an odd number times larger than an about ¼

of a wavelength in one radio wave among a plurality of radio waves applied.

5. A plate-like multiple antenna as claimed in claim 4 wherein:

a width of said slot is set to be ⅛

or less than that of a wavelength of one radio wave among a plurality of radio waves applied.

6. A plate-like multiple antenna as claimed in claim 4, wherein:

a longitudinal dimension of a routing line of electric current distribution of said loop antenna constituted by said third and fourth radiation conductors in said slot is set to be an integer number times larger than about ⅛

of a wavelength of said another radio wave.

7. A plate-like multiple antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said conductor plate is formed on an insulative base, a part of conductor edges of said third and fourth radiation conductors in said slot is extended to downwards of said base, said extended part of said third and fourth radiation conductors is electrically connected with a wiring pattern formed on a substrate of a high-frequency circuit and in said slot, and said power is fed to said third and fourth radiation conductors through said wiring pattern.

8. A plate-like multiple antenna as claimed in claim 7, wherein:

said conductor plate is covered with an insulating material.

9. A plate-like multiple antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said power source comprises a coaxial line composed of an inner conductor and an outer conductor positioned on an outer periphery of said inner conductor, said inner conductor is formed of a single wire or a strand of plurality of wires, said inner and outer conductors are connected to said third and fourth radiation conductors respectively at one end of said coaxial line to constitute a power feeding line for said loop antenna and a monopole antenna constituted by said first and second radiation conductors.

10. Electrical equipment, comprising:

a plate-like multiple antenna as claimed in claim 9 disposed inside the equipment.

11. Electrical equipment, comprising:

two plate-like multiple antennas as claimed in claim 10 being installed in such a manner that conductor edges, which have been notched to define slots, respectively, are not opposed to each other.

12. A plate-like multiple antenna for transmitting and receiving one radio wave and another radio wave each having different wavelengths, comprising:

a conductor plate;

a slot formed by notching said conductor plate;

a first radiation conductor formed of said conductor plate at one side of said slot;

a second radiation conductor formed of said conductor plate at another side of said slot;

a loop antenna constituted by a third radiation conductor connected

with one of said first and second radiation conductors in said slot; and

a power source for feeding power to said third radiation conductor and one of said first and second radiation conductors.